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Cartoon: Tales from the outsourcing industry
Another great Geek & Poke cartoon this one is about outsourcing based on an article from Forbes magazine last week that predicts an end to India’s cost advantage by 2015…
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Data visualization: Social networks around the world
With new data on Facebook making the headlines yesterday telling us that their user numbers are leveling out in the US and the UK, we remembered that we recently have seen a great info-graphic showing the use of social networks with the most popular providers per country around the world in the French Newspaper “Le Monde”
The data used in the graphic is from August 2007 but it’s interesting to see the popularity of providers in different countries. There are a few white spots on the map, some…
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Microsoft provides free developer tools to students worldwide
If you’re a student of an university around the world Microsoft today is giving you a late Christmas present.
From today on Microsoft allows students worldwide to download developer tools including VS Professional 2008 and 2005, a copy of MS Server 2003, VirtualPC, SQL Server 2005 Dev. Edition, Expression Studio plus additional development tools free of charge.
All you have to do is to use your MS Live account (or a newly created one) to log into the site and provide the country and name of your university. The verification of your student status will then be done within about a minute via a web service ( we learned this from someone who has done it with an UK university, might take longer with others). The license key allows you to use the software for student projects and research. Teaching staff and commercial use is excluded…
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Games: Real World Racer
There are no red traffic lights stopping you on your race through cities around the world with “Real World Racer”
Nice little online game that allows you to race your small little red car against a group of opponents on Google Maps / Satellite images…
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Humor: Hasta la vista Vista!
A sign put up by a computer repair shop in a small town in New Hampshire, USA.
“Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog at SeattlePI” put it up as an “add-on” to a Vista one-year-story published in the newspaper on that day…
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Lunchtimers: Multi player time waster games
If you’re looking for a new set of “time waster games” here’s another suggestion:
Try out the “Lunchtimers” multi-player online games. Great fun – we played a bit of jigsaw with 7 others. To kill some time its just perfect…
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